Destruction of Palais Royale

The Destruction of Palais Royale occurred in the autumn of 1940 when French Resistance fighter Sean Devlin destroyed the German military base at the Palais-Royal in Paris, France during World War II.

The French Foreign Legion fighter Le Crochet, concerned with the war in North Africa, had Devlin assassinate the pro-Vichy France Libyan ambassador in order to intimidate the desert clans into breaking their alliances with Nazi Germany. In order to further cripple the German war effort in the Western Desert Campaign, Crochet decided to target Germany's supply lines. He discovered that an airship was docking at the German supply depot at the Palais-Royal to take on emergency supplies for the Afrika Korps, so he dispatched Devlin to destroy the supply base.

Devlin succeeded in knocking out a German soldier and stealing his uniform, infiltrating the Palais Royal while in Nazi uniform. He proceeded to climb a ladder and reach a German anti-aircraft gun on the palace's rooftop, and he used the gun to destroy the main German zeppelin, as well as a zeppelin looming over another part of the neighborhood. He also blasted the fuel depot in the base, causing a massive explosion, and he used the gun to destroy nearby German occupation towers and to blast German soldiers. Devlin then proceeded to destroy a Nazi rocket with dynamite, and he used regular bullets to riddle the two smaller supply zeppelins with holes, destroying them as well. Devlin's destruction of the German base at the Palais-Royal ended Nazi Germany's tight occupation of the district, with the people being inspired to rise up against the Germans and aid the Resistance.